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Silver Unit - Dubnovellaunos Pegasus
| Issuer | Cantii tribe (Celtic Britain) |
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| Year | 30 BC - 10 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | A leaping Pegasus depicted in profile to the right, adorned with a necklace and belt rendered in characteristic Celtic decorative style. The winged horse springs over a cross-hatched net motif in the lower field, with a pellet positioned below the neck. Asterisk ornaments appear above and below the central figure, and a pellet-in-ring motif is placed behind the horse, filling the reverse field in a balanced yet distinctly Celtic compositional arrangement. |
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| Mintage | ND (30 BC - 10 BC) |
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Dubnovellaunos ruled among the Cantii of southeast Britain during a period when cross-Channel contact with Gallo-Belgic tribes was reshaping local coinage traditions. His name — meaning roughly "world lord" or "deep lord" — appears on coins from both Kent and, later, Essex, suggesting either territorial expansion or a dynastic shift that remains disputed among scholars. The attribution of specific types to one Dubnovellaunos rather than a possible namesake ruler is a longstanding problem in Iron Age numismatics, and ABC 315 sits squarely within that unresolved debate.